Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph WeizenbaumThe inventor of ELIZA, the original chatbot, is a candid skeptic about the abilities of computer technology. This philosophical, often personal book is as much about interpreting the human role in the universe as it is about creating thinking machines. Both the quest for understanding and the quest to build machine intelligence, it implies, are deeply intertwined. Weizenbaum is a technical expert deeply concerned about the ethics and morals of technology.